Why He Stopped Masturbating More Than 10 Years Ago

New York Post: The tide started to turn for me after about 90 days. That’s when I realized I was going entire days without thinking about how I wasn’t masturbating.
I started to notice benefits, like I was being more attentive to my wife. When you’re not masturbating, your wife or significant other is your only chance for an orgasm. So you start to take seduction more seriously. You can’t just go off to your man cave and milk yourself into oblivion.
Not masturbating also helped me stay in the moment. During my heavy masturbation period — i.e., many times throughout my adult life — it didn’t take much for my attention to wander. If you talked to me, I might look like I was listening, but in my head I was thinking, “OK, OK, get to the point, buddy. I have a computer full of sweet JPGs and MPGs waiting for me at home, and they’re not going to jerk off to themselves.”
Once I stopped whacking, that was one less thing taking me out of the moment. I could really be with people and not be distracted by the orgasms I wasn’t having.
When you’re not masturbating, the amount of time you save is amazing, and you get back a lot of mental real estate. It makes you more powerful. Or at least that’s how I felt.
When I meet a person for the first time, it’s tempting to shake their hand and say, “Hi, I haven’t masturbated since Feb. 14, 2005. How long has it been for you? Since this morning?”
It’s not like my sexuality has just disappeared. I’ve had about half a dozen nocturnal emissions (or “wet dreams”) since I began this experiment, and they have always been a pleasant surprise. If your body needs that release and you’re not providing it, nature has a way of taking care of it for you.